Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
@epbirdsall.bsky.social
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Writer, FR>EN translator, general nerd about town. Same username in various realname-y places.
ughhh of course (this isn't really
#uspolitics
it's more global labor burden of tech but tagging for friends just in case)
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Joshua Raclaw
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
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Lawprofblawg
12 days ago
Damn.
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free
Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-trashes-amazon-greenland-free-music-1235505119/
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#uspolitics
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I found this a very heartening read (for "given that this horrific and enraging situation is even happening" values of heartening, but it is, so analysis of useful tactics is indeed heartening)
#uspolitics
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Heather Rose Jones
23 days ago
Submissions continue to be open for the Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast's fiction series. I'm gallivanting around NYC but the in-box isn't on vacation!
alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/...
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Call for Submissions: 2026 Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast Fiction Series | Alpennia
The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast will be open for submissions in January 2026 for short stories in the lesbian historic fiction genre, to be produced in audio format for the podcast, as well as publ...
https://alpennia.com/lhmp/essays/call-submissions-2026-lesbian-historic-motif-podcast-fiction-series
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Patrick Wyman
23 days ago
We tend to think of things happening in the present as the endpoint of stuff that's been percolating for decades, but it's also the beginning of new things: These are formative events that nobody living through them will forget, and we have no idea what seeds are being sown for the future.
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I'm really proud of this little story of a big robot and all the lives around it in and above the soil, and I hope you enjoy it!
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Absolutely thrilled to announce that I have a story -- a graphic adaptaiton, in fact! -- live today in the
#soilpunk
magazine Tractor Beam! The absolutely wonderful art was done (really impressively fast!) by Xiang Yata. You can read "The Valley in Thaw" and all the rest at
www.tractorbeam.earth
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Thaw | Tractor Beam
A quarterly publication of soilpunk fiction: Radical visions rooted in soil
https://www.tractorbeam.earth/
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Ann Marie Wilson
about 1 month ago
Snow makes neighbors of us all.
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Stars and Sabers
about 1 month ago
We are pleased to announce that
@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social
and
@epbirdsall.bsky.social
have joined our spy thriller anthology, OF INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE, out May 2027! More details here:
www.starsandsabers.com/2025/03/13/s...
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Stars and Sabers Publishing announces a spy thriller anthology.
Stars and Sabers Publishing announces a spy thriller anthology, Of Intrigue and Espionage, to be edited by Jendia Gammon and Gareth L. Powell, for May 2027.
https://www.starsandsabers.com/2025/03/13/spy-thriller-anthology-announcement/
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UAW
about 1 month ago
š§µ On December 30, 1936, thousands of General Motors auto workers courageously sat down on the job inside the plants in Flint, MI, and shut down the most powerful corporation in the world. šø
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Farah Mendlesohn
about 1 month ago
At 7pm GMT Today! The Female Man, a Discussion, 30 December: Free, at
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549...
or at facebook:
fb.me/e/3F0xoFwPh
The last posting of the link will be one hour before, so this is the last chance to sign up.
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Discussing the Female Man
Rebecca Fraimow, Jed Hartman, Farah Mendlesohn and Emily Tesh discuss this highly controversial and complex novel
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697987549469?aff=oddtdtcreator
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geoffrey
about 1 month ago
[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
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Not only did
@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social
get me an electric fireplace space heater for Christmas/Hanukkah (thus WINNING WINNER HOLIDAYS OMG) but she also got me the present of a chance to assemble a piece of furniture thereby. I'm a simple soul.
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that thing where your cat is sleeping in a circle and you put your arms around them and rest your forehad on their soft fur, and they don't move but they start to purr š that's all
about 2 months ago
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Erin (Snow Mephit Era)
about 2 months ago
Limited time thing! It would help a ton if you would share - if it helps, it's very cute and it's gayyy
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Irene
about 2 months ago
course Iām sharing that, itās likely the only time anybody will ever ask for an emergency theremin
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I'm at urgent care (nothing too serious!) and the waiting room's Disney medley is sending me. We've bibbity bobbitied! We've tale as old as timed! We've... done some love song I don't recognize! Now we're not talking about Bruno.
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rax ālevon honkersā king
2 months ago
not sure how to square āno one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscriptionā with āsorely underpaid writers need to make a livingā but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
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Reading "I Leap Over the Wall," a 1950 memoir by Monica Baldwin, who entered a cloistered convent in 1914 and left it like a dazed and blinking time traveler into the wildly different world of 1941, and it is FASCINATING. I'm having a wonderful time so far.
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Delighted to announce that the MURDERFISH anthology is now live!! Containing a whole bunch of great stories and cool art, all about murderous fish, including my own story "In Sheets of Seaweed." Ebook:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
Paperback:
www.amazon.com/Murderfish-A...
Audiobook: coming soon!
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Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia)
Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia) - Kindle edition by Stoumbos, Mike Jack, La Ronn, Michael, Stein, Jake, Rey, Jena, Arther, Azure, Hodges, Larry, Hankins, David, Haskell, N. V., Fox, Shannon, Cole, Ryan. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Murderfish: an Aquatic Anthology (Unhelpful Encyclopedia).
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G59L1WF2/
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The Comfy Dude
2 months ago
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Ned Resnikoff
2 months ago
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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You know that feeling when you're reading along going "wow, this book is SUCH AN ID VORTEX, it's hilariously over the top, I wonder how it's going to stick this landing???" In this case, readers: it did not š
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Freya Marske
3 months ago
This essay about Cinder House is definitely the most vulnerable, personal thing I've ever written; it took me over a year to get to the point where I wanted to tell this particular story. Thanks to
@booktrib.bsky.social
for giving it a home! š š„
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Housing the Heroine in āCinder Houseā | BookTrib.
If you asked me today, and if you'd asked me two years ago, I'd tell you I'm very fond of my house. It's nothing special. It's a townhouse surrounded by other townhouses that look just like it, formin...
https://booktrib.com/2025/11/18/housing-the-heroine-in-cinder-house/
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my beautiful wife, handing me this month's book club book, which happens to be by Ursula Le Guin: "what about DEEZ... possesseds"
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Cecilia Tan
4 months ago
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports
AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/artificial-intelligence/turn-off-ai-tools-gemini-apple-intelligence-copilot-and-more-a1156421356/
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Rebecca R Helm
5 months ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and itās possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread š§µ)
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Courtney Milan
4 months ago
Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.
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In other news, an easy fast to anyone dating tomorrow, and if you're observing Yom Kippur with or without fasting, may it be meaningful ā¤ļø
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I'm not someone who's usually much affected by the deaths of famous people I don't know, but the news today of Jane Goodall's
#death
hit hard. Dying at 91 of natural causes after a long life well and energetically lived is pretty much all one can ask, but still.
4 months ago
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marcmagus
4 months ago
I don't object to this new feature existing as I'm sure filtering out unknown languages improves the experience for a lot of people, but I loathe that it was turned on for me by default.
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CAN'T WAIT
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5 months ago
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I hate vulture capitalism and I hate everything about this but fyi, sewing friends
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Jocelyne Allen
5 months ago
Quit doomscrolling and come watch Crunchyroll get their ass handed to them in the comments of this innocuous-seeming post! It's a good time for everyone!
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it was a genuinely fascinating double header! both extremely fun but VERY different takes on the music industry, lol
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6 months ago
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Karen James
6 months ago
She doesnāt need a hero, she is the hero we need. š¤©
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Jendia Gammon
6 months ago
Every award ceremony should have this.
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Locus Magazine
6 months ago
Congratulations to all of the
#HugoAward
finalists and winners!!
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Hugo, Lodestar, and Astounding Awards Winners
The winners of the Hugo Awards, the Astounding Award for Best New Writer, and the Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book were announced on August 16, 2025 by Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd Worldā¦
https://locusmag.com/2025/08/hugo-lodestar-and-astounding-awards-winners-2/
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Congrats again to all the Hugo nominees, and HUGE CONGRATS to all the Hugo winners!! ...And extra huge congrats to Emily Tesh and my beautiful wife Rebecca Fraimow for HUGO-WINNING BEST FANCAST podcast Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones!!!
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Courtesy of catsitter friend, please behold Mina when she sneaks up behind you on the bed and judges you for not playing with the string toy already
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#uspolitics
The direct line to the HHS secretary's office is 202-690-7000, as mentioned in a reply this; I just called and left a polite but emphatic voicemail about RFK Jr's horrific decision about mRNA vaccine research funding. Let's give 'em hell about this.
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I was complaining to/with friends about how I'd like a number-go-up kind of challenge to get me to walk more but I don't want my data auto-synced to a corporation about it! I just want a step counter! Not to be a health tracking surveillance big data point!
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Rebecca Fraimow
6 months ago
LOOK AT HER! THIS IS THE VISION!!! the bubble skirt and big faux-innocent eyes .... thank you so much
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, I'm in love with this
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Really enjoyed this perspective!
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6 months ago
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New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine
7 months ago
It's comin'... Details here:
newedgeswordandsorcery.com/submissions/
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omg I'M STOKED
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6 months ago
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I have one (1) go-to digital preservation joke but staying funny means making it lots of times in lots of locations--
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Olivia Waite
6 months ago
I never thought to see something like this in my lifetime, what a profound joy
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